Uruguay: Agencia Reguladora de Compras Estatales (ARCE) (Historical)
ARCE tracks information in Sistema de Información de Compras Estatales (SICE).
All the public bodies governed by public law, including Central Administration (including the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches), Departmental Governments, Autonomous Entities and Decentralized Services and bodies with functional autonomy (Court of Auditors, Electoral Court, Administrative Court, among others) are required to use SICE. There is an exclusion with respect to the previous bodies that operate in competitive markets (e.g., purchases of the public cellular telephone company) and that have the right to reserve the information.
It is not mandatory to publish processes where the value of the purchase is below 20% of the threshold corresponding to the agency’s maximum direct purchase amount (some agencies have expanded direct contracting amounts).
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Jan 1970 - Dec 2024
- Update frequency:
- Annually
- Last retrieved:
- Jan 12, 2026 (retrieved annually)
- Retrieved from:
- https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/arce-datos-historicos-de-compras
- License:
-
Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay Versión 0.1
Authorization. The open data and open metadata provided, for commercial and non-commercial use, may be:
- alienated, reproduced, distributed, published, translated, adapted, transformed, communicated or made available to the public through any form or procedure;
- merged with own and third-party data, and can be combined to form new and independent data sets;
- integrated into business processes, products and internal and external applications in public and private electronic networks.
Note of Origin. In order to use open data and open metadata in the terms referred to in the previous article, the following information must be cited in all cases:
- the name of the provider,
- the reference to the “Open Data License - Uruguay”.
- the reference to the data set that is being used. Changes, editions, new designs or modifications must be mentioned in the note of origin.
- Publication policy:
- https://www.gub.uy/agencia-reguladora-compras-estatales/politicas-y-gestion/politica-publicacion-para-estandar-open-contracting
- Main language:
- Spanish
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-yfs5dr
Data available
A contracting process has several stages: tendering, awarding, contracting and implementation. You can learn about the contracting stages in this tutorial.
These counts are the number of JSON objects across all contracting processes. Parties, tenderers and suppliers are unique within a contracting process, but can be repeated across contracting processes. You can learn about data publication in this tutorial.
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 3,044,304
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 584,970
- Count of tenderers:
- 0
- Count of tender items:
- 2,213,936
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 1,652,763
- Count of suppliers:
- 1,568,711
- Count of award items:
- 3,567,778
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 0
- Count of contract items:
- 0
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 1,004,164
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
No extensions are used.
Data quality
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- Some unlikely dates in the data, like 1970-01-01.
- Some awards have invalid code for ‘status’, e.g. “status”:“unknown”
Last reviewed: Jun 2019
Access data
This OCDS dataset is available for download in JSON, Excel or CSV format. You can download the data for contracting processes in a specific year or for all time.
JSON
Each contracting process is represented as one line of JSON text in the .jsonl file.
The .jsonl file is compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .gz file.
Excel
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main sheet. Other sheets link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each sheet is linked to its parent sheet via the [sheet_name]_id column.
Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows. Download the CSV files, instead.
CSV
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main.csv file. Other files link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each file is link to its parent file via the [file_name]_id column.
The .csv files are archived using tar and compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .tar.gz file.